GYTI Announcement 2018

SRISTI celebrates the creativity and innovation of young technological students by recognising their outstanding projects with Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards. These awards are given every year during the Festival of Innovation (FOIN) at RashtrapatiBhavan in the month of March. This year, these awards were given on March 5, 2017 at FOIN. It is hoped that such recognition will enthuse young innovators to pursue even more outstanding research addressing unmet social needs and set up entrepreneurial ventures in consonance with Start-Up movement gaining strength currently in India.The categories of the GYTI awards are:
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards, 2018Last date for submission of entries is November 30th, 2017

MLM (More from less for many), Frugal Innovation award- ideas that economise on the use of material are extremely affordable and sustainable

Technological-edge award-ideas that push the frontiers in any technological domain

BIRAC-SRISTI award for biotechnological/medical/healthcare innovation

Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Amulya K.N. Reddy GYTI Award for various disciplines
Financial support is also given to some of the awardees as per following windows of opportunity:

BIRAC-SRISTI GYTI Awards – Rs 15, 00,000 grants will be given for further research / prototype development and possible entrepreneurship development work to each of the 15 awardees in medical device and biotech area

The awardees can choose to join the Bionest Incubator likely to be set up at SRISTI in collaboration with BIRAC and DBT, New Delhi. SRISTI plans to organize several summer/winter schools on inclusive innovations. Awardees can join those and develop innovative solutions to unmet social needs in a time bond manner.

Any student project that has been completed during 2015-16 to 2017-18 is eligible for consideration of awards. The faculty members can encourage their students to submit the projects at following URL: www.gyti.techpedia.in or submit it themselves under the name of the students. We acknowledge that much of the good work students do is done under the guidance of their teachers/mentors. However, we aim to encourage creativity of students and thus request teachers to support them in the Honey Bee Network movement’s effort to promote young innovators by sharing the announcement with them.

About GYTI

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) has established three national awards for innovative student projects in engineering, pharmacy, science and other applied technologies. These awards are given every year during the Festival of Innovation (FOIN) at Rashtrapati Bhawan in the month of March. Read More